CCISD forms Citizens Facility Advisory Committee

Published 11:40 am, Monday, September 17, 2012

The Clear Creek Independent School District Board of Trustees has established a citizens committee to prioritize and recommend a list of capital projects to meet the district’s growth and replacement needs for the next three to five years. The special purpose committee of educators, parents, and community members will tour schools, interview staff, review facility assessments, and make a final recommendation to the school board on the timing, funding, and priority of capital projects by February 25, 2013.

“As with any growing organization, public or private, capital needs exceed available funding. This creates the framework for CCISD to engineer cost effective solutions to its infrastructure deficiencies and capacity shortages, stretching limited dollars as far as possible,” said Ken Baliker, School Board President. “In my view, the FAC Committee will provide an important barometer to the Board of Trustees to prioritize infrastructure projects proposed throughout CCISD and to gauge public willingness to fund them.”

The Clear Creek Independent School District is home to 44 schools and more than twenty-percent of the campuses are 40 years or older. “While we have done a great job in maintaining these aging facilities, the truth is many of our classrooms do not have the capacity, technology, or even meet current educational standards,” said Greg Smith, Superintendent of Schools. “In addition, we are still growing as a district and so we need to look down the road and around the corner to make sure we are prepared to handle such growth.”

The Board of Trustees outlined specific guidelines for the committee. They are as follows: